Julia Stratton: A Requiem for A Soldier January 24, 2007

Julia Stratton's collection of fourteen bronze sculptures confronts the difficult theme of war through works inspired by the 'Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor.' Seeing today's crisis in the context of a long history of war, Stratton focuses on the spiritual and human rather than the overtly political. Stratton explains that each sculpture corresponds with one of the fourteen sections of 'Mozart's Requiem,' finding that the 'Requiem's' "powerful expression of conflict and loss makes an inspiring structure for [her] motif."